9~coexisting wooly primeval a-—flames it eS e—adjusted a —welding zy Flight g—losing dratctes vir. Text- Based Answers Vit what is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? W' be ge dumps? Where Is he and where has he come In the garbage dumps near Seemapuri in Delhi, Saheb looked I, for be sold for cash. As these items could be traded for money, they wore Jose ee ee anh could be soe snd his family lived in Seemapuri, a slum on the outskirts Of Delhl. His family had migra from Bangladesh because the storms there had swept away their fields and homes. et What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearin: The writer Anees Jung has explained that when she travelled across the Sountry she found children walking barefoot, in cities and on village roads. It was not lack of ‘money but a tradition {o stay barefoot. This was one explanation. One of the boys she spoke to in Seemapuri said that they were on the shelf and the mother didn’t bring them down for him to wear. However, most poor families cannot afford to buy footwear for their children. . 2 Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain. ts SaMrrator found Saheb carrying a steel canister and came to know that he had got a job at Tiga stall where he would be paid 800 rupees and given meals. His face seemed unhappy and areas of his carefree look. He was now tied down to work as a child labourer and is no longer independent to go scrounging in the garbage dumps. His canister seemed heavier than his plastic bag. What makes the city of Firozabad famous? he city of Firozabad is very famous for bangle-making. It is a hazardous profession but every see nd family in the town is engaged in the business. Firozabad is the centre of India’s glass- Bioming industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces. They make beautiful bangles for the women in the country. of working in the glass bangles industry. igles industry is that the welding of pieces of 'e workers lose their eye sight. There is no air and iso suffer from lung and brain related diseases. For t better 5, Mention the hazards The main hazard of working in the glass ban coloured glass into circles of bangles made th light in the rooms with hot furnaces so they a! sot ie hard work, they are not paid well and these workers live in poverty and canno! their lot. 6. Howis Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family? ‘business to bangle making. He even taught his elder His grandmother accepted [27] Mukesh’s father shifted from his tailoring aan es ice bangles. He could teach his sons only what he knew. English Comprehensive Study Book‘ ed that jestiny’, She believ' : desd to become 2 Car v dition with that e sangesaear hw : y mu PHoweveh a her husband's going blind from polishing one could never I they couldn't break their ‘God-given lineage mechanic and not continue bangle making 2 rofe profession. from villages to cities? vere forced to come to to stay. The farms in the jave them and come for \s if they were able on of people yyment so they oper place forced to le ind poor conditions 7. What could be some of the reasons for tne migr The people in the vilages find it difficult to get ee me Te Perle obs. cates offered them FOC% they were eens £e acome unproductive 206 P2TTT AG in siums a vilages No ea, Such people iat mind vind to eat two meals a day for thelr families: hil 8. Would you agree that promises made to poor cI this appensinehesnclderts Mary inte ren for improving their lot allover the iis wus nae many promises 2 MS evar kept. Poor Chien ‘suffer from contagious world, HONeVE" these Ore - poaged in child labour and work in ted a school, would school was ready. The also ai ® malnutrition and starvation, They are bse us conditions. When the narrator “Tasually asked Saheb if she sta) farting the school, but fter a few days if hel pe7eroll, He was happy and literally asked her a ne ror felt embarrassed because she Was not at all serious about st eeheb was really serious about her Promises ry kept? Why do you think Idren are fF bangle industry of Firozabad in bangle industry of Firozabad always lived in poverty as they were exploited aay lenders), middlemen, policemen, law-rmakersy bureaucrats and cian form their co-operatives or unions to improve their conditions or ask polpetter wages. If they organised themselves they would be beaten or taken to, jai on the 0 join the pretext that they had done something illegal. Even thet ‘children were also force Prete tue at an early age thus the entire family was caught In 2 vicious web of poverty and can never come out of it. 9, What forces conspire to keep the workers inthe poverty? The workers in the by the sahukars (m politicians. They Col ion, can Mukesh realise his dream? Moeech belongs to a family of bangle-makers from Firozabad. He hi boys of his age and his family members. He wanted to Become motor-mechanic and also pov od to learn to drive a car. He was quite determined to go walking to the gavage which was quite far away from his home. He would request the owner to take hin! on 26 8 worker. He oo eat by doing petty work related to the garage. If Mukesh got the right opportunity and put in sincere efforts, he could surely become a skilled mechanic and also learn to drive a car When he became an adult. Thus, he could fulfill his dream. How, in your opini as a different dream from Why should child labour be eliminated and how? Child labour is a blot on Indian society. We need to see that children like Saheb and Mukesh have a better life and are not forced into child labour. We can do this by: a. Ensuring that the children get education so that they become aware of their rights and ca” also choose a better profession. b. ince ere ee a be study in the regular schools there should be night classes for them 5° «that the day they can help to add to the family income by doing work Be bee rica ral eee enon oe into child labour doing hazardous work, . mat : school so they should not force them to ones eenleel e. Create awareness about the need to help under are working to improve their lot. , ileged children and support NGOs who [28] * English Comprehensive Study Book